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Contests : War Poetry Contest : Past Winners : 2006

2006 War Poetry Winners

Congratulations to our 2006 prizewinners Ed Frankel, William Pitt Root and Carrie Preston, and to our honorable mentions and finalists. Their poems were judged the best of the 868 entries we received. This year's winners share cash prizes totaling $3,000. Click the names below to read the winning entries and learn about the honorees. Read comments on the entries from contest judge Jendi Reiter. Read the press release.

First Prize
Ed Frankel, "Instrumentum Vocale", "Gladium Vocale"

Second Prize
William Pitt Root, "El Comandante Has Asked for a Song"

Third Prize
Carrie Preston, "I Also Married the War", "The camis come out", "War Paperwork"

Honorable Mentions
EP Allan, "The Sacrifice"
Judson Blake, "The Immolant Approaches the Pentagon"
Louis Girón, "What Was Left Out", "Perchance to Dream"
Linda LeGarde Grover, "Casualty Days"
Paul Hamill, "The Submarine Cakes"
Sean Joyce, "The First People"
Robert Hill Long, "Abu Golgotha", "The Red and the Green"
Jude Nutter, "Selling Honey on the Road to Sarajevo", "Love and the Hangman in Croatia", "Untitled"
Jeff Streeby, "LeRoi 'Ace' Evans"
Viktor Tichy, "Hand, Baret, and Bayonet in my Mother's Chest", "Wild Mushrooms"

Finalists
Christopher Buehlman, "Rapture (October 2001)"
Beth Ferris, "Republic of Glass", "Endless Knot", "By the River"
Joan Hutcheson, "The Language of War"
Heinz Kohler, "Thunder in the East"
Tim Leach, "Making Friends Where Tapioca Once Grew"
Christopher Leland, "Strip Poker" and "Extreme Rendition"
John McBride, "Night Greyhound"
Lynn Shoemaker, "9-11 Nampit"
Paula V. Smith, "The Third Line"
Dennis Arlo Voorhees, "Peace for Allen Ginsberg"
Larry Wells, "After Our Own Hearts", "East Wind, Rain"
Colleen Williams, "War", "Trojan Horse"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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War Poetry Contest
2008 War Poetry Results

Congratulations to our 2008 prizewinners Aliene Pylant, David Brendan Hopes and Jude Nutter, and to our honorable mentions and finalists.

First Prize - $2,000
Aliene Pylant
Unerring Mercy and Pure Grace

Second Prize - $1,200
David Brendan Hopes
In the First Days of the War; Memorial Day

Third Prize - $600
Jude Nutter
Via Negativa; Visiting Uncle Peter's Grave; Carolina Grasshoppers

Honorable Mentions
$100 each
M.C. Allan
Michael Fredson
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Atar Hadari
Elizabeth Hoover
Alice Irvin
Michael Joyce
Lynne Knight
Carolyn Moore
Jerry Neren
Flo St. Jean
Curt Snodgrass

Finalists
EP Allan
H. Lee Barnes
Glenn Buttkus
Carmine Dandrea
Paul Handley
Kelly Michels
Kevin C. Peters
Carrie Preston
Jay Rogoff
Anindita Sengupta
Avery Slater
James Tyner




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